Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making

A Handbook of Research and Best Practice

• Author(s): Jerzy A. Filar, Alain Haurie,
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
• Pages: 338
• ISBN_10: 1441911308
  ISBN_13: 9781441911308
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Science / Environmental Science , Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General , Business & Economics / Operations Research , Business & Economics / Urban & Regional , Business & Economics / Economics / General , Nature / Natural Resources , Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy , Business & Economics / Environmental Economics ,

Description:... The 21st century promises to be an era dominated by international response to c- tain global environmental challenges such as climate change, depleting biodiversity and biocapacity as well as general atmospheric, water and soil pollution problems. Consequently, Environmental decision making (EDM) is a socially important ?eld of development for Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS). - certainty is an important feature of these decision problems and it intervenes at very different time and space scales. The Handbook on “Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making” provides a guided tour of selected methods and tools that OR/MS offer to deal with these issues. Below, we brie?y introduce, peer reviewed, chapters of this handbook and the topics that are treated by the invited authors. The ?rst chapter is a general introduction to the challenges of environmental decision making, the use of OR/MS techniques and a range of tools that are used to deal with uncertainty in this domain.